Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
from "What Is Pop Art?" Art News, November 1963
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From: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ISBN 978-0156717205
* The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
o Ch. 4 : Beauty, p. 71
* I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
o Ch. 6 : Work
* What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it...........
o Ch. 6 : Work, p. 100
* They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
o Ch. 7 : Time, p. 113
(Photo: Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams talking on the S.S. France, 1967, World Journal Tribune Photo by James Kavallines.)
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